…yeah I fell into that mental trap for a while too. And yeah, the two party system and FPTP leaves a lot to be desired.
But we gotta focus on the here and how, which is a party of obstructionists at best, and literal Nazis at worst; vs a party of science and rights at best, and kinda toothless / often uninspiring at worst. Voting for anything else, or choosing not to vote at all, is still accepting that one of the aforementioned two will win; you’re just silencing your own voice and letting your countrymen decide on your behalf.
…and when enough people do the same, that’s a great way to end up with fucking Nazis.
We do have to live in the here and now, and deal with the hand we’re dealt… but that doesn’t mean we can’t also acknowledge the systemic problems that exist.
Obviously we need to vote for the lesser evil as long as there’s only two options… but that doesn’t make it a good choice. And trying to minimize that realization by damning anyone who comes to that conclusion as falling prey to a “both sides are the same” argument is self-defeating. It means that there’s nothing to reach for, that what we have is as good as we can get it.
The system is broken. Neither choice we have is good, that doesn’t mean that one isn’t considerably worse… but that doesn’t automatically mean that the other choice is incomparably good either.
You can levels of shit where one is better than the other… but that doesn’t mean they’re any less shit.
…yeah I fell into that mental trap for a while too. And yeah, the two party system and FPTP leaves a lot to be desired.
But we gotta focus on the here and how, which is a party of obstructionists at best, and literal Nazis at worst; vs a party of science and rights at best, and kinda toothless / often uninspiring at worst. Voting for anything else, or choosing not to vote at all, is still accepting that one of the aforementioned two will win; you’re just silencing your own voice and letting your countrymen decide on your behalf.
…and when enough people do the same, that’s a great way to end up with fucking Nazis.
We do have to live in the here and now, and deal with the hand we’re dealt… but that doesn’t mean we can’t also acknowledge the systemic problems that exist.
Obviously we need to vote for the lesser evil as long as there’s only two options… but that doesn’t make it a good choice. And trying to minimize that realization by damning anyone who comes to that conclusion as falling prey to a “both sides are the same” argument is self-defeating. It means that there’s nothing to reach for, that what we have is as good as we can get it.
The system is broken. Neither choice we have is good, that doesn’t mean that one isn’t considerably worse… but that doesn’t automatically mean that the other choice is incomparably good either.
You can levels of shit where one is better than the other… but that doesn’t mean they’re any less shit.